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alfo extraéts from his leétures, which were 
then dedicated to the mveftigation of the 
ma'adies incident to the urinary paflages. 
‘The treatment of thefe difeaies, hitherto 
the reproach of practitioners, had been 
much improved by the affiftance of the 
arult Bern rd. The elaitic prcbes (/es 
[ittacs Eafiuques on their irlt appearance, 
fixed the attention of all profeifional men, 
but none knew better than Default, how 
toappreciatetheir advantages. By means 
of them, he introduced a novel mede of 
cure in contra¢tions of the urethra, which 
faved a great number of lives every year 
in the Hé‘e/-Diew. But he did not con- 
fine their ufe tothe difeates of the urethra 
alone, for he employed them to remove 
the divers obfacles that impede degluti- 
tion, or refpiration. 
In the midft of fach a multiplicity of 
Jabours, and although he was obliged to 
attend 400 fick twice a day DrEsSAULT 
neverthelets, occupied more than four 
hours of his time in vifiting private pa- 
tients. 
Few furgeons ever enjoyed fuch an 
exclutive thare of public confidence ; few 
ever poffefled fimilar means of enriching 
themfelves, and yet he negleéted, for a 
Jong time, to take advantage of this. 
Had he been !efs* ardent for glory, he 
would have been more favoured by for- 
tune; but he facrificed all. interefted 
views to the noble ambition of advanc- 
ing his art. His clinical and anatomical 
courfes were gratuitoufly opened by him 
to the world after the year 1790, and 
while the pubiic fchools languifhed in 
the midft of troubles, infeparable, per- 
haps, from a mighty revolution, he was 
forming the greater part of thofe fur- 
geons employed at this prefent moment 
in the numerous armies of the republic. 
Confidered under this point of view alone, 
the fervices which he rendered to huma- 
nity, are incalculable; too happy, if 
perfecution had not been his fole re- 
word! 
W hile out of mere attachment to the 
public, weal, he added to his various 
tunélions hat of a member of the coun- 
cil «f ‘health, conferred. on him in 1792, 
by the minifer Servan, he was. de- 
nounced inthe popular focieties as an ego- 
tuft, an ind ferent, c. and became one of 
the firft viétims of that profcription, 
which, under 
to nearly every man of talents. 
Cheumette accufed him to the fec- 
tions, as having negleéted the brave men 
wounded on the 10th of Auguft, while 
they them{elves were lavifhing their bleff- 
_ Original Anecdotes.---Default. 
Robe!pierre, extended 
[ Aug. 
ings at the Hdtel-Drexv, on their faviour, 
Twice was he brought to tne bar of a 
commune; defirous of -difcovcring a pre- 
text for perfecution, the clamours of 
the people were unremittingiy excited 
againft him. He was at length carried 
away from his amphitheatre, while in 
the very act of haranguing his pupils; 
and, in-confequence of a mundait d arrét, 
frorn the revolutionary committee, con- 
duéted by a body of armed men to the 
Luxemburg. From-this horrid prifon, 
few ever departed, but to meet their fate ; 
luckily, however, his name was not yet 
entered on that~bloedy lift, in which 
thofe of Malefherbes and Lavoifier were 
inferted. On the contrary, at the end 
of three days, he was liberated, and ine 
ftantly refumed all his fun@tions. Soon 
after this, the revolution of the fp Ther-. - 
midor took-piace, fince which memorable 
period, triumphant juftice has reftored 
the reign of humanity, and the arts and- 
{ciences have begun once more to flourith. 
Oc the eftabliihment of «’ Evolede Santé, 
DiESAULT was appointed clinical profef- 
for; and for external maladies he foon 
after ubtained from the government the 
converfion- of zhe Ewecke into an hof- 
pital, for furgival operations. 
The troubles that occurred on the 1ft 
Praiial, in the midf of thefe plans, un- 
fortunately affeéted~his mind, and made 
him dread left the days of profcription 
fhould return. t was in vain that 
his friends attempted to {cothe his fuffer- 
ings, for on the night of the 29th of 
May, a malignant fever made its appear- 
ance, anda nearly continual delirinm en- 
fued, until his death, which eccurred on 
the 1f of June, 1795, os which day he 
breathed his laft, in the arms of his pu- 
pils, at the age of 51. 
The populace were perfuaded that he 
was poifoned. This ridiculous opinion 
originated in confequence of the epoch 
of his death, «hich preceeded buta fhort 
time that of the fon of Louis XVI, 
whom*he had vifited during hits ulmefs in 
the prifon of the Temple. It is pre- 
tended that he fell a vidtim to his con- 
ftant refufal to yield to the criminal views 
entertained againft the life of that child. 
Default was of a middling ftatue. He 
was well proportioned, and pofleffed an 
open countenance. His temperament, na- 
turally robuft, had been fortihed by his 
early education. and was never fapped 
by an excets of pleafvres, for to them his 
heart was alwaysindifferent. His ruling 
pafiion was the love of glory; his favo- 
rite purfyit, the praétice and advance- 
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